Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10556
WORK-LIFE BALANCE: IT’S RELATIONSHIP WITH STRESS, MENTAL HEALTH, LIFE AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG EMPLOYEES OF PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS OF CHANDIGARH AND ADJOINING AREAS (MOHALI AND PANCHKULA) Jaspreet Kaur & Dilbagh Singh Randhawa, Ph. D. (Research Scholar Ph.D, IKGPTU, Kapurthala)
The concept of Work-life balance is becoming more and more important in the fast changing working environment. Increased working hours have adverse impact on the lifestyle of huge number of people, which ultimately affects their social and psychological well-being. Work-life balance became an important area of human resource management, seeking attention from government, researchers, and professionals for providing innovative ways to improve employee morale, retain employees andby providing suitable ways to employers for facilitating a better Work life balance at the work-place. This study attempts to investigate the relationships between Work life balance,stress, mentalhealth, and life and job satisfaction. Four hundred bank employees (200males and 200 females) were randomly selected from Private sector banks of Chandigarh and adjoining areas ranging ageof 32 to 55 years. The general hypothesis stated in the reaserch pertains to the relationship between Work life balance,stress, mentalhealth, and life and job satisfaction. The possible effect of gender difference has also been considered in this study. To test the hypothesis, t –test and inter correlations were applied. Analysis of results reported sexdifferences on some of the variables where females scored significantly high on Stress; males score high on Work life balance, Mental Health and job satisfaction. Correlations results for the whole sample reveals thatwork life balance is significantly positively correlated with mental health, Job satisfaction and life satisfaction in males while work life balance is positively and significantly correlated with mental health and Life satisfaction in females. Job satisfaction is positively correlated with life satisfaction in males whereas; mental health is positively correlated with life satisfaction in females. Stress is not correlated with any variable in any group. Keywords: Work life balance, Stress, mental health, life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction Recently, Work-life balance has become an important concern to both employers and employees of the most of the organizations. Work-life balance basically deals with an employee‟s ability to properly prioritize between work and lifestyle, social life, health, family etc., is generally related with employee productivity, performance and job satisfaction. In the case of proper balance between work and life, employees usually put in their best efforts at Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies